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D-I-Y Overt There: Indies Abroad Time-Bomb Songs AIMP Turns 20 Making the MIDEM Trip HANDS-ON AND HEALTHY: Today's Indies Are Involved And Doing A Better Job Than Ever 'Chasing The […]

Brian McKnight is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, musical arranger, record producer--even an actor, co-starring in the sitcom Sister Sister--who's been hanging platinum records on his walls for the past 10 [...]

Present-tense promotion means 'never a day without change or 10 things that need immediate attention.' Just as Jeff McClusky & Associates is more than a radio promotion firm, its success [...]

After two successful decades, the nation's premier radio-promotion-and-marketing firm provides hundreds of stations with a variety of services. But its foundation and driving force remains unchanged: an unflagging enthusiasm for [...]

THE BILLBOARD INTERVIEW ETTA JAMES Etta James' first taste of fame came at age 15, when she co-wrote and recorded 'The Wallflower' (a.k.a. 'Roll With Me Henry')--the answer record to [...]

Now celebrating her 50th year in the music business, Etta James can point with pride to an impressive catalog of her work. Currently available are 23 individual albums, a two-CD [...]

With Its Brand Of Mind-Blowing Mysticism And Eye-Popping Showmanship, EWF Has Created A Musical Legacy Earth, Wind & Fire has sold more than 20 million albums--including an astonishing six consecutive [...]

HOLLYWOOD After nearly a year of public sniping and speculation, BMG Entertainment and music industry giant Clive Davis have entered into a 50/50 joint agreement to form J Records. Terms [...]

A&R BY BILL FLANAGAN (RANDOM HOUSE; 342 PGS.; $23.95) Most novels about pop music fixate on how the troubled but talented recording artist gets screwed over by the big bad [...]

HOLLYWOOD The idea for satellite radio was hatched in 1990, long before radio was deregulated and owners were limited to less than 20 stations -- a far cry from today's […]

The potential of satellite radio can be gauged by Americans' love affair with their cars. Both Sirius and XM are banking on capturing some of these numbers: * 42% of […]

Dueling birds hope to land mobile auds Satellite radio. All those promises. One hundred national radio channels covering virtually every type of music with digital sound and, in many cases, [...]

HOLLYWOOD Having apparently exhausted the amount of settlement monies that can be collected from tobacco and gun industries, 28 states' attorneys general turned to the other great villain in the [...]

Universal's acquisition of indie music publishing giant Rondor Music from its co-founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss turns the Hollywood conglom into the world's No. 3 music publisher. The current [...]

HOLLYWOOD Napster, the maverick dot-commer that has wreaked havoc in the music biz, is learning the hard way that it's tough to survive in rogue waters of the copyright world. [...]

HOLLYWOOD Founded four years ago, DreamWorks Records is currently home to the eighth-bestselling album in the nation: 'Infest,' the debut effort from rock/hip-hop outfit Papa Roach. Driven by the hit [...]

HOLLYWOOD Despite the shakeup in Warner Bros.' film unit, the Warner Music Group has remained relatively crisis-free. While the pending AOL merger hangs over everyone's head -- and the benefits […]

HOLLYWOOD When music mogul Clive Davis unveils his new joint venture with BMG Entertainment -- a $100 million-plus, multi-year deal that the Arista Records founder would like to wrap up [...]

Scribe William Goldman's now-famed pronouncement about showbiz was 'Nobody knows anything.' Given the current battles raging over the Internet's free-wheeling distribution of entertainment, Goldman's dictum could be amended 'Nobody owns [...]

(HOUSE OF BLUES; 1,000 SEATS; $15) HOLLYWOOD Presented inhouse. Band: Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Chris Gage, Rob Gjersoe, Christine Albert, Brad Fordham. Reviewed May 13, 2000. Touring behind his first release [...]

HOLLYWOOD Singing "S' Wonderful," director Stanley Donen celebrated his being honored at ASCAP's 15th annual Film & TV Awards by dancing atop an onstage chair. The 76-year-old Donen received the […]

The recorded music business -- and the rest of Hollywood's creative community -- breathed a collective sigh of relief April 28. That's when a U.S. federal court ruled that MP3.com [...]

HOLLYWOOD Founded last year, New York City-based Artemis Records is focusing its artist development efforts on Kittie, a ferocious hard-rock quartet of Canadian schoolgirls (ages 1517) whose debut album, 'Spit,' [...]

'When I signed Train, they didn't have a following outside of the San Francisco Bay Area,' says Columbia Records Group senior VP/A&R Tim Devine. 'So the first thing we did [...]

Marketing-driven acts drown out fresh voices at music congloms As the number of record companies shrinks down to the Big Four, the number of records sold by acts discovered on [...]

Santana and Arista's Davis lead top nods to Old School HOLLYWOOD The Grammys were a Santana 'Supernatural' soiree all the way. For Clive Davis, the man who brought Carlos Santana [...]

HOLLYWOOD The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences has absorbed the Music Producers Guild of the Americas. As a result, the org will form a Producers and Engineers Wing, [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has become the third entertainment industry trade association to file suit against a Web-site operator for giving away access to copyrighted product via [...]

New Warner EMI catches riches in 'Net When Time Warner's Warner Music operations and EMI announced on Jan. 24 their intention to create a $20 billion company called Warner EMI [...]

He started out playing trumpet in his grade-school band, switched to electric bass when the Beatles hit, then co-founded White Wing Records, 'the coolest record store in Miles, Ohio' (a [...]

There are many. Chief among them is thinking like the labels it distributes. Currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, RED Distribution began in May 1979 as Important Record Distributors. As the [...]

HOLLYWOOD Jimmy and Doug's Farmclub.com, the online record label created by Interscope/Geffen/A&M co-chair Jimmy Iovine and Universal Music Group chair-CEO Doug Morris, has spawned a weekly TV show, "Farmclub.com," that's […]

'The perfect give-and-take' has characterized three decades of fruitful writing, producing and business collaboration. Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff were a songwriting partnership that blossomed into a record-production team that […]

The most successful start-up record label of the last decade has to be Atlanta-based LaFace Records. Founders/co-presidents Antonio 'L.A.' Reid and Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds first got together as the respective […]

'Ten years ago, the special-products business was about answering the phone and servicing song requests,' says Universal Music president of special markets Bruce Resnikoff. 'Nowadays, it has become a marketing [...]

'Ten years ago, the special-products business was about answering the phone and servicing song requests,' says Universal Music president of special markets Bruce Resnikoff. 'Nowadays, it has become a marketing [...]

'Punk rock is always going great, even when it's not the flavor of the month,' notes Caroline's director of purchasing and label relations Michael Bull. 'Historically, it's always been our […]

Remember when 'indie' meant independent and 'alternative' meant an alternative to major labels? So do the folks at Caroline Distribution. After all, the Caroline Records label was there, releasing many […]

As the lines between electronic music and hip-hop became increasingly blurred, Caroline began strengthening its commitment to hip-hop in 1997. 'We were finding that people who bought electronic music were […]

'We are America's largest and most diverse distributor of electronic music,' says Caroline Eastern region sales manager Sean Gibbons. 'And electronic-dance music is one of the styles that's linked closest […]

Much of Caroline's 16-year success story has to do with how well the company covers the field. The following profiles chronicle Caroline's continuing efforts on behalf of a wide range […]

BRANCHING OUT FROM ITS ORIGINS AS A PURELY CLASSICAL DISTRIBUTOR, ALLEGRO'S FAMILY TREE IS NOW HOME TO A WIDE VARIETY OF LABELS AND MUSIC, EACH WITH ITS OWN SUCCESS STORY […]

From his work with the Monk Institute to the Rhythm Of Life Foundation, Hancock is actively involved with jazz education. Herbie Hancock has been deeply involved with the Thelonious Monk […]